The power to make time stop for everyone else while I went about my business. The world would just freeze in its tracks without ever realizing it.
I get just one? Lycanthropy, ie a werewolf. 
Oh yes. Great guy. I miss those not so “angst” filled, non life threating villians. 
I actually go to sleep at night thinking about this. Man, you get some interesting dreams! Anyway, all I’ve got to say is “Goku” of Dragonball Z. You get flight, telekinesis of a sort, plus the whole energy-blast thingie goin’ on. Talk about a traffic clearer!
I would like to have complete mastery of the power known as “The Dewey Decimal System”.
If I had to pick just ONE, it’d be teleportation. Just think, no worries about gas prices, insurance, traffic, plane tickets, etc. etc. A nice modifier would be to be able to teleport others with me.
Second place would be telekinesis.
Eposia
Telempathy. Not as pokey/nosey/vulnerable as telepathy (I don’t care. I know what I think, why would I want what you are thinking in here too? I confuse myself enough.) but still sensitive/powerful enough to ease things off a bit. Make people just more willing to agree with you,let them come up with the reasons why.
Mr. Cynical, if you ever get your psychic backrubs up and running, please send one my way!
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In that case, read The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything by John D. MacDonald. Or see the early-1980s made-for-TV-movie version of it with Robert Hayes and Pam Dawber (it must be on video somewhere).
Eposia wrote:
… which would be really useful, 'cause otherwise you’d arrive at your teleport destination totally naked.
When I was a teen-ager, the two things I wanted most in the world were sex and telekinesis. Oh, and a yellow Cadillac. I guess that’s three things.
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And with the ability to neutralize inertia, you’d have an inertialess drive a la E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman books.
Air resistance is not, strictly speaking, friction. Even if you could make friction go bye-bye, you’d still have plenty of aerodynamic drag. In fact, friction interferes less with the operation of the Space Shuttle than it does with just about any other form of transportation!
Although I love long-distance driving, sometimes I have to get there yesterday.
If that’s not going to happen, at least give me facultative digitokenism - the ability to have, at will, a token in hand on the Parkway.
Invisibility. I enjoy being the unnoticed guy in the background anyway. Plus, there are all those hormone-fuled adolescent fantasies I dreamed up every time I walked past the girls’ dressing room that I would be able to satisfy…
Dogsbody’s idea (making people spout nonsense at random intervals) is great. I would freakin’ love to do that. I would probably end up following around Andy Rooney just to make his segments more entertaining. “Y’ever wonder why dog pate in hammy segment rain hornblowing as a scam fa bodie?”
I would also really like telekinesis, so whenever somebody says something stupid, I just think myself over to the nearest construction site, levitate a brick, and…
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That would just be cool.
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She kept friction normal on the soles of her feet. That actually reminds me of a Spider-Man villain. Anyone else remember Slyde, the man with the non-stick suit?
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Loud and clear, Koffing. White suit, like green pads on it? I was just thinking about this the other day, when I was trying to recall Madcap, the insane chaotic somewhat hero.
I think the ability to control gravity would be a pretty effective super power. You could “lift” almost anything by making it fall up. You could “fly” by controlling the direction that gravity pulled you. I’m sure there would be a way to get rich with this one, too.
This is not exactly a super power, but . . .
A female friend of mine and I both have quite a few food allergies. Anyway, we were at lunch together, looking over a menu and mourning over all the yummy stuff that we couldn’t eat. So I posed an interesting question: “If you could barter it so that you could eat whatever you wanted for the rest of your life, with no consequences whatsoever, no weight gain, no allergic reactions, without ever feeling more than comfortably full, would you give up having sex for the rest of your life?”
We both sat there in silence for a moment, and then she said, “Sorry, Steve.” Steve is her fiance’s name. We laughed ruefully and went about ordering permissable items.
That choice would take a lot of thought for me, and I might choose it for a power if that meant I wouldn’t have to give up sex. grin
For a more conventional super power, I would choose indestructibility. It would be great to know that nothing but old age could kill you.
I would like to be able to freeze time for everything else but me. I could freeze time, walk into a bank, take what I needed, walk out, un-freeze time. This would also come in handy when the girls basketball team at the local university was in the showers after practice.
Being able to make myself invisible would be a great one too. Mostly for the shower reason too I think. 
Although, I figure if I were invisible, the last place I’d want to be is in a steamy shower. Wouldn’t the steam stick to you and make you somewhat ghost like?
A People Magazine poll once asked, “Which would you rather be able to do: fly, or turn invisible?”
The poll results were almost exactly 50/50 (50% said “fly”, 50% said “turn invisible”). However, across gender lines, about 1-2% more females than males said they’d prefer invisibility. I would not consider this tiny deviation significant, however.
Mr. Sears Kenmore with the power to open some guy’s garage door in Gremany when I press the button here.
Telepathy. And I want to be able to aim it and plant ideas.